Acai's Sky

Chapter 955: Immortal Village Guardian 2

Ah Cai gritted his teeth and growled, You Yan transformed into a black stream of light and rushed straight towards the black fog.

The ghosts let out sharp wails, and the giant face that was pieced together collapsed the moment the flames touched it.

Countless pale white faces twisted and struggled in the strange fire like pieces of paper blown away by the wind. The phantom blue ghost fire was burned to ashes, and the thick black fog was torn into a scorching crack.

The village guard turned around in astonishment, his peach blossom eyes reflecting the dark fire surging around Ah Cai.

Her hair was lifted by the heat wave, and her pale face flushed with an eerie red under the reflection of the flames. She looked like a god of war walking out from the depths of the underworld.

[Youyan] suddenly split into thousands of tiny fire snakes and climbed up along the chains condensed by ghosts. Wherever it went, the chains made a crisp sound as if they could not bear the weight, and countless sparks flew out.

An even more angry roar came from the depths of the black fog, and this time the sound waves actually lifted up the gravel on the ground.

Ah Cai staggered back half a step, only to see the dark flames suddenly gather against the strong wind and condense into a huge vortex of fire above her head.

The dark flames twisted like a living thing, vaguely outlining the outline of a ferocious animal head - it was a ferocious beast with fangs, and its pupils burned with a darkness thicker than the night.

"Roar--" The fiery beast roared towards the sky, and the sound waves made Acai's eardrums hurt.

She controlled the flames and lunged forward.

The ghosts seemed to sense a fatal threat and frantically gathered into a black shield, but the moment Youyan touched the shield, the black mist quickly melted like thin ice in boiling water.

The sharp claws of the fiery beast tore apart the bodies of the ghosts and crushed them into scattered ashes.

The village guards tightly grasped the hatchet they had recovered and rushed forward to fight alongside Acai.

The copper bell on his waist had turned black at some point, and every time it was shaken, it stirred up black sound waves, forming a wonderful resonance with the high temperature of Youyan.

The ghosts were defeated under the double attack, but more black fog came from all directions, as if it could never be completely eliminated.

The dark flames suddenly surged, transforming into a black wall of fire that stretched between the ghosts and the village.

As the wall of fire burned, it emitted a strange chanting sound, like the whisper of an ancient demon, causing all the ghosts present to stop for a moment.

...

Outside the village ancestral hall

The village guard roasted his fire and said in a hoarse voice, "Thank you, Miss... for helping to defend Changsheng Village."

A Cai glanced at the village guards and wondered how their village had provoked such a powerful creature.

The spiritual consciousness left the body and looked around the entire fragment. The area was not small. Looking at the system prompt number, this continent was about to be shattered into pieces!

The bonfire outside the ancestral hall crackled, and sparks shot up into the night sky, reflecting shimmering golden fragments in Acai's eyes.

The village guard added a piece of dead wood to the fire. The copper bell swung slightly with the movement, making a muffled sound mixed with the smell of rust.

He took out a piece of hard bread from his rag bag, broke off a small half and handed it to me. The calluses on his palms rubbed against the bread, and tiny flakes of skin fell off.

"Miss, eat something." The centipede scar on his neck twitched slightly as he spoke. "The Black Evil has been targeting Changsheng Village for twenty years, ever since the old patriarch... cough!"

His words were interrupted by a violent cough. He covered his mouth with his knuckles turning white. When he took his hands away, there were some spots of black blood on his palms, which glowed with a strange green light under the reflection of the campfire.

Ah Cai didn't take the bread, her consciousness spreading out like a spider's thread. The entire village seemed like a solitary island suspended in the void, the distorted halo at the edge like a broken mirror, slicing the gray sky.

His spiritual consciousness passed over the charred land to the west of the village and suddenly hit an invisible barrier - dense chains emerged from the ground and twisted into a huge cage, in which the cries of ghosts could be faintly heard.

"Is this a seal?" She withdrew her consciousness and glanced at the cluster of blue flame on the chest of the village guard.

The latter shrank suddenly and subconsciously covered his chest, revealing more chain-like scars under his faded collar, as if someone had carved talismans on his flesh with red-hot iron chains.

The village guard threw a piece of sulfur stone into the fire, and the flames suddenly shot out a faint green light, illuminating his face in flickering light. "Miss, did you see that?"

His throat rolled, and his voice was like sandpaper grinding against rusty gears. "Twenty years ago, the Black Evil broke the first seal, and the old patriarch exchanged his life for the second. Now..."

He raised his hand and pointed at the ancestral hall. The word "Eternal Life" on the faded plaque had mostly peeled off, revealing dark red bloodstains underneath. "The third seal is about to break."

Ah Cai noticed that the pillars of the ancestral hall were engraved with talismans, the cinnabar had faded to brown, and broken teeth and dry nails were embedded in the gaps.

The village guard suddenly stood up, and the copper bell rang rapidly. He dragged out a wooden box from the corner of the ancestral hall, and black stones were neatly stacked inside - each stone was engraved with the face of a ghost, and there were still undried blood and tears in the eye sockets.

"These are soul-calming stones."

He picked up a piece of stone, and the ghost face on the stone suddenly opened its eyes and let out a sharp whimper. "The Black Evil is about to devour the entire continent. Changsheng Village is the last line of defense. The blood of us who defend the village... is the key to the seal."

He rolled up his sleeves, revealing a crisscross pattern of deep and shallow wounds on his wrists. The deepest wounds even revealed the shape of chains. "Each scar is a sacrifice. When my whole body is covered in chains..."

Before he could finish his words, the ground suddenly shook violently. The talismans in the ancestral hall erupted in a blinding red light, and the soul-calming stones in the hands of the village guards exploded, and the ghost faces turned into black smoke and soared into the sky.

The black fog surged out from the ground again, this time carrying countless chains, weaving into a huge skull in the air, with ghostly blue fire burning in its empty eye sockets.

"Come on!"

The village guard pushed Ah Cai toward the ancestral hall, but he himself faced the black fog. He ripped open his collar, and the dark blue flame on his chest suddenly swelled up, echoing the will-o'-the-wisp fire in the black fog.

The moment the hatchet was swung, the centipede scar on his neck split open, and black blood gushed out, condensing into chains in the air and wrapping around the lower jaw of the skull.

As Ah Cai watched the village defenders fighting bloody battles in the black fog, he suddenly understood the profound meaning of the system number - Changsheng (2333) is not a place name, but the third seal from the bottom.

And each of those scattered fragments is a continent that is collapsing.

The [Phantom Flame] in her palm ignited once more, the dark flame illuminating the scar on the village defender's back. The chains there were spreading at a visible speed, like the knuckles of the Grim Reaper creeping up...

Ah Cai suddenly sat cross-legged on the cracked blue bricks of the ancestral hall, with the hem of her clothes spreading out like a black lotus.

She slammed her palms down on the ground, and dark golden runes burst out from her palms, like vines that came to life and moved wildly, climbing up the mottled beams along the cracks in the bricks.

With a clear shout, the power of [Life of All Things] exploded, and the entire ancestral hall seemed to be injected with the pulse of life. The tiles trembled and sprouted green buds, and the rotten wooden beams faded away the black spots at a speed visible to the naked eye, and regained their warm luster.

The energy of life turned into a golden wave and surged out. Wherever it passed, the black fog made a sharp hissing sound like snow burned by the scorching sun.

The ghosts twisted in fear, their illusory bodies were forcibly torn apart by life, and they screamed like babies.

The dark blue will-o'-the-wisp fire crackled in the golden light, transforming into sparks all over the sky. The air was filled with the fresh scent of sprouting grass and trees, which collided violently with the foul black fog.

The village guard stood there in a daze, almost dropping his hatchet.